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‘Ending AIDS’ in the Age of Biopharmaceuticals: The Individual, the State and the Politics of Prevention book cover

1st Edition

‘Ending AIDS’ in the Age of Biopharmaceuticals The Individual, the State and the Politics of Prevention

By Tony Sandset Copyright 2020
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge
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This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding the treatment of AIDS from one of crisis to that of ‘ending AIDS’. Exploring what it means to ‘end AIDS’ and how responsibility is framed in this new discourse, the author considers the tensions generated between the individual and the state in terms of notions such as risk, responsibility and prevention. Based on analyses public health... Read more

Part 1: Setting the Stage for the End of AIDS

1. Introduction

2. A Short History towards the End of AIDS

Part 2: ‘Hotspots’, Space, Risk and Surveillance  

3. Viral Load Maps: The Entanglements Between the Individual, the Community, and Space

4. Molecular HIV Surveillance: Issues of Consent, Ethics, and Molecular Truth Telling

Part 3: Targeting the End of AIDS: Genuine Solidarity and Empowerment or Individualized Responsibility? 

5. PrEP: The Public Life of an Intimate Drug

6. ‘HIV both Starts and Stops with Me’: Health Promotions, Neoliberalism and Responsibility

7. ‘The Category is: Suppress! Disclose! Survive!’, ‘Positive Living’ in Health Promotions for People Living with HIV in the Era of the End of AIDS

8. Conclusion: A Tentative End to AIDS?

Biography

Tony Sandset is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway, and the author of Color that Matters: A Comparative Approach to Mixed Race Identity and Nordic Exceptionalism.

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